My Parents’ “Fish” and Chips

When people in my parents’ generation say they are not cooking for a day, they still cook! “Not cooking” to them means making something light, like chips. My parents never believed in eating out, so on Fridays when they said they were “not cooking,” they often made fish and chips. When I was young, my father used to season and fry the fish just right, and my mom would be churning out chips as if she were auditioning for a fast-food job. I was just on the receiving end, luckily. Caribbean fi